M. Remi Yergeau

Scholar in Rhetoric

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M. Remi Yergeau Portrait - Photo from the faculty page of the University of Michegan: https://lsa.umich.edu/english/people/faculty/myergeau.html

M. Remi Yergeau is an associate professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan. They also direct the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network, which is an interdisciplinary research and co-mentoring collective that centers crip wisdom, neuroqueer futures, and disability liberation in its engagement with the digital.

As an autistic academic, Yergeau's research contributes to the deconstruction of autism as pathology. They look at the social and cultural construct of autism by rhetorics, and explore the intersectionality of neurodiversity and queerness. They write extensively on rhetoric & writing studies, digital studies, queer rhetorics, disability studies and theories of mind. Their book Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP), is a winner of the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Price, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetoric Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.

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